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From: Jeff Mitchell <jmitchell@ll.mit.edu>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bb-matrix.sh: check for the existence of time
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:50:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2F44AC.4040803@ll.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2F429E.5030607@linux.intel.com>

On 07/26/2011 06:41 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks for the patch. A couple points of feedback below:
>
> On 07/26/2011 02:57 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> What an existential subject. The patch is quite self-explanatory.
>
> Well, there is almost always a need for commit log beyond just the
> subject. The only exception might be "whitespace fixes only" or
> "spelling fixes only".

I did write a commit log, but git-format-patch turned it into the 
subject of the attached patch. No, I haven't used git-format-patch 
before :-)  (I've been fortunate to have been able to avoid it for many 
years now.)

> Also, while it is tempting to squeeze in typo fixes and such with a
> functional patch, unless they are in the code you are changing anyway,
> they should be sent as separate patches.

Given the triviality of both changes I didn't think this would be an issue.

--Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 21:57 [PATCH] bb-matrix.sh: check for the existence of time Jeff Mitchell
2011-07-26 22:41 ` Jeff Mitchell
2011-07-26 22:41 ` Darren Hart
2011-07-26 22:50   ` Jeff Mitchell [this message]

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